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Disasters affect 100 million people in 2015, UN experts

Natural disasters affected almost 100 million people by last year, UN experts said Thursday, before warning that 2015 – the hottest year on record – is a sign for governments to take action now, according to UN Radio.

The data, released by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) in partnership with CRED, shows that the most disaster-hit countries in the previous 12 months were China, India, Philippines and Indonesia.